Santa Engracia High Water Tank

The constant growth of Madrid to the north
with increasingly high buildings caused problems of water pressure in many
areas, so already in 1900 the engineer Diego Martín Montalvo planned the
construction of three elevated deposits that would come to solve this lack. However, just one of them was built, made by Luis Moya Idígoras, which was completed
with a central elevator drawn by Ramon de Aguinaga. With
a capacity of 1,500 m3, the raised deposit is an interesting work of industrial
character and great structural beauty, made in brick on a circular-shaped layout plan and with
buttresses in slope, that is finished by means of a lowered metallic dome that
covers the glass proper; while
the central elevator, also of brick, has been se on a rectangular-shaped layout closed by large
arcades. In
disuse since 1952, the warehouse was converted in 1986 in the Exhibition Hall
following a respectful project of rehabilitation by the architects Alau and
Lopera, who put in value the extraordinary space wealth of the interior,
dominated by the spectacular metallic structure.